Back in April, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman got a good spanking from food enviro-bloggers for publishing a recipe for red snapper, a severely overfished species listed as “avoid” by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. Bittman explained the appearance of the snapper recipe in The Grey Lady as a “screw up,” [...]
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Remember the real media? That would have been publications before personal blogs, the ones that actually pay you for writing stories around food and recipes. I have a dim recollection of those days and writing what seemed like a non-stop stream of articles for The Washington Post’s food section. The first, as I recollect, was [...]
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This marks the Slow Cook’s second appearance in Edible Chesapeake since the magazine resumed publication earlier this year. My assignment: challenge a local chef to design a budget meal around locally-grown ingredients. If you read the piece, you’ll notice right off that I took a somewhat different approach than most of these chef challenges. First [...]
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We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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